{"id":686,"date":"2007-01-08T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2007\/01\/wheres_the_rest_of_him_1\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:24:55","slug":"wheres_the_rest_of_him_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2007\/01\/wheres_the_rest_of_him_1\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE&#8217;S THE REST OF HIM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could quibble, punch up the lead (a Johns Hopkins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/10\/AR2006101001442.html\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> has Iraqi civilian deaths surpassing 650,000), but this wins the year-in-review prize for tone alone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThousands of people died in the Iraqi civil war, which was<br \/>\ncosting the United States $100,000 a minute. U.S. forces<br \/>\nbegan to negotiate with Sunni insurgents, and the<br \/>\nPentagon, short of buglers who can play taps at military<br \/>\nfunerals, ordered 700 automated digital bugles. Oil<br \/>\ncompanies announced record profits; President George<br \/>\nW. Bush said that America is &#8220;addicted to oil&#8221; and also<br \/>\nasked Congress to pass laws outlawing human\/animal<br \/>\nhybrids. Scientists in Taiwan bred three glowing pigs.<br \/>\nSamuel Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and a<br \/>\nstudy found that Antonin Scalia is the funniest of the<br \/>\nSupreme Court justices. Robert Grenier, director of the<br \/>\nCIA counter-terrorism center, was fired for opposing<br \/>\n&#8220;excessive&#8221; interrogation techniques like waterboarding,<br \/>\nand U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot and severely<br \/>\ninjured a fellow hunter while aiming at quail. Osama bin<br \/>\nLaden released a tape in which he warned of new attacks on<br \/>\nthe United States; he also called on his followers to<br \/>\ntravel to Sudan and fight against the U.N. forces in<br \/>\nDarfur. Al Qaeda members were communicating via social<br \/>\nnetworking website MySpace.com, and the Taliban<br \/>\nestablished a &#8220;mini-state&#8221; in Peshawar. Iran announced<br \/>\nthat it had successfully produced low-grade enriched<br \/>\nuranium; to celebrate, men in traditional dress danced<br \/>\nwith uranium samples. U.S. senators insisted that<br \/>\nattacking Iran must remain an option. &#8220;I can drink beer<br \/>\nout of my leg,&#8221; said Matthew Braddock, a 25-year-old<br \/>\nNational Guardsman who lost his left foot and nine inches<br \/>\nof his left leg to a mine in northern Iraq. &#8220;How many<br \/>\npeople can do that?&#8221;&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/YearlyReview2006.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harper&#8217;s<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could quibble, punch up the lead (a Johns Hopkins report has Iraqi civilian deaths surpassing 650,000), but this wins the year-in-review prize for tone alone: Thousands of people died in the Iraqi civil war, which was costing the United States $100,000 a minute. U.S. forces began to negotiate with Sunni insurgents, and the Pentagon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}